By: Alvarado, Campbell, Paxton  S.B. No. 865          (In the Senate - Filed January 22, 2025; February 13, 2025,   read first time and referred to Committee on Education K-16;   April 30, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee   Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 30, 2025,   sent to printer.)Click here to see the committee vote     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 865 By:  Paxton     A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT     relating to instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the   use of automated external defibrillators for school district,   private school, and open-enrollment charter school employees and   volunteers.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Sections 22.902(c) and (e), Education Code, are   amended to read as follows:          (c)  Each school nurse, assistant school nurse, athletic   coach or sponsor, physical education instructor, marching band   director, cheerleading coach, and any other school employee   specified by the commissioner and each student who serves as an   athletic trainer must participate in the instruction in   cardiopulmonary resuscitation and [in] the use of an automated   external defibrillator. A person described by this subsection must   receive and maintain certification in cardiopulmonary   resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator   from the American Heart Association, the American Red Cross, or a   similar nationally recognized association.          (e)  A [This subsection applies only to a] private school   that receives an automated external defibrillator from the agency   or receives funding from the agency to purchase or lease an   automated external defibrillator or an open-enrollment charter   school[.  A private school] shall adopt a policy under which the   school makes available to school employees and volunteer nurses    [volunteers] instruction in the principles and techniques of   cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of an automated external   defibrillator. The policy must comply with the requirements   prescribed by this section and commissioner rules adopted under   this section, including the requirements prescribed by Subsection   (c).          SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026   school year.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives   a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as   provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this   Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this   Act takes effect September 1, 2025.     * * * * *